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collaborators 2018


amalia wiatr lewis - spring



dance artist/curator
philadelphia, pa





Amalia Wiatr Lewis is an interdisciplinary dance artist and curator. Her dance work asks questions of space, time, and relationships through the exploration of idiosyncratic gesture, somatic practices, and improvisational scores. Her current movement practice uses abstract experiments to explore ideas of domesticity, gender politics, internal psyches, and the self and the other.​

amaliarayewiatrlewis(dot)com

amalia(dot)raye(at)gmail(dot)com









Julian castillo - spring



digital producer
philadelphia, pa





Julian is a social & digital producer with a background in performance and emergent media studies. Brooklyn-born and currently working in Philadelphia as a Digital Marketer, he tackles roles ranging from social media manager, content creator, writer, & more. Outside of work, time is spent producing Bridge The Gap, a livestream dedicated to hosting bands on Twitch.TV while benefiting their choice charity organization. He is actively looking for collaboration projects, feel free to reach out via Instagram (@mrjuliancastillo) or Twitter (@HungryAndAngry). Favorite late night snacks include popcorn, apples w/ peanut butter, and diagonal-cut grilled cheeses.





collaborators 2017


Ann-marie gover - october



dancer
queens, ny





Ann-Marie is a performer, teacher, and maker residing in Queens, NY. She is currently working with Stormy Budwig, Curet Performance Project, Lucy Kerr, and Kate Watson-Wallace. Currently she is choreographing an opera on Ovid's Metamorphosis and further developing her dance workshop geared for queer teens called I See You.









alessandra delle grotti - october



dancer
jersey city, nj





Central Jersey native, Alessandra Delle Grotti, attended The University of the Arts on the Artist’s Grant Scholarship, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and the Outstanding Modern Dance Performance Award under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Upon graduation, she co- produced “Roots” as a participant in The Philadelphia Fringe Festival alongside sustained collaborators, Katrina Atkin and Ann-Marie Gover. Alessandra has professionally performed works by Helen Simoneau, Jesse Zaritt, Iris Bouche, William Forsythe and many other prestigious choreographers. More recently, she resides in Jersey City, NJ and has begun a career in the Finance and Technology integrated worlds following her previous professions in Restaurant Management and Interior Design. She is currently working for Kensho Technologies Inc. located at 1 World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan. While being educated in these new fields, she continues to nurture her interests in dance, art, and creativity.



weekend athlete - october



musician
philadelphia, pa





Weekend Athlete is an electric guitar & loop pedal-driven solo artist from Philadelphia, PA.
Writing songs prominently about family, drugs, alcohol, sexuality and abuse.





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marisa Illingworth - august



dancer
philadelphia, pa





Marisa Illingworth, a recent graduate from The University of the Arts with a BFA in Dance, is a freelance dancer in Philadelphia, PA. Since graduating, she has taken great pleasure in performing for local artists such as Shannon Murphy, Meredith Stapleton, Haylee Warner and Katherine Kiefer Stark. She values a heightened sense of emotional, social, and political awareness in physical practice and in every day life, and is very excited to continue learning, questioning, and collaborating with fellow artists in Philadelphia.



JENNA POLLACK - APRIL



dancer/teacher/choreographer
sitges, spain





Jenna is pursuing her M.A. in Choreography at The Institute of the Arts Barcelona, and recently received a Certificate with Honors from Harvard Business School’s HBX CORe program. She has performed with Scottish Dance Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera, American Repertory Theater, Bryan Arias Company, Equus Projects|On Site, Lincoln Center Education, and BOP Montréal. Jenna is committed to producing interdisciplinary performance and serving as a teaching artist worldwide.



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Lauren vogelstein - march



mathematician/dancer
nashville, tn





Lauren began dancing at a young age in Wilmette, IL. Her love of the art form as well as mathematics brought her to New York where received her a BFA in dance and a BS in mathematics from The Ailey School and Fordham University. She is currently working on her doctorate in Learning Sciences at Vanderbilt University and looking for tools and techniques to allow children, as well as adults, to use their bodies as tools for mathematical thinking and learning.





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josh nussbaum - february



musician/composer
philadelphia, pa





Josh Nussbaum, Philadelphia musician, has over 20 years of experience that includes not only performing, but also producing, composing and teaching. Having spent many years cultivating his technical skills, Josh has lately turned his attention to writing and arranging. With an ever-evolving passion for music and art, Josh has experimented with large group writing, electronic music, noisy guitars, video production and heavy instrumental and jazz improvisatory elements.


As of late, Josh has focused most of his attention towards his solo efforts as an artist and his production company, FeedLab Music. Go to www.joshnussbaummusic.com to find up to date information on Josh’s current projects and endeavors, with links to all necessary information.



Keegan atkin - January



videographer/editor
seattle, wa





Keegan is a filmmaker and actor based out of Seattle. He and his sister Katrina have been collaborating on video and performance since they were children.


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